Sentences with phrase «serving mandatory sentences»

When he was growing up, his family dealt crack in Daytona Beach, Fla., and while Fryer was on his way to becoming a celebrated economist at Harvard University, many of his cousins and closest friends were serving mandatory sentences in prison.

The inmate in question was within six months of her release date, serving a mandatory sentence.

Not exact matches

Mr Justice Dingemans imposed a mandatory life sentence and told the defendant he would serve a minimum of 20 years imprisonment.

He is already serving life without parole because of a Niagara County Court conviction for the murders, but he and Pirk face mandatory federal sentences of life without parole for the murders because the jury found they were part of a racketeering conspiracy.

Thus in Secretary of State for the Home Department, e x parte Doody [1994] 1 AC 531, [1993] 3 All ER 92, where the issue was whether the home secretary was under a duty to give reasons for a decision relating to the prescribed period which a mandatory life sentence prisoner must serve before being eligible for parole, the House of Lords held that the decision in question was sufficiently important for it to be accompanied by reasons.

The court's answer will determine whether Deondery Chambers will have to serve the mandatory 15 - year minimum sentence required of federal defendants who have committed three violent felonies.

Many of those with pending applications for clemency were convicted long ago of garden - variety crimes and have fully served their time; many others are still serving lengthy mandatory prison terms from which there is no hope of parole (parole having been eliminated from federal sentencing).

Section 727 (1) of the Code states that the mandatory minimums set out in s. 255 are applicable only if the Crown, in advance of any plea, notifies the accused of its intention to seek a greater punishment by reason of previous convictions (the «Notice») and tenders proof at the sentencing hearing that the Notice was served.

As reported in this post from yesterday, and as explained a bit more via this write - up I provided to the fine folks at SCOTUSblog, the Supreme Court yesterday in Dean v. United States, No. 15 - 9260 (April 3, 2017)(available here) ruled that the Eighth Circuit had been wrong to hold that, «in calculating the sentence for [a] predicate offense, a judge must ignore the fact that the defendant will serve the mandatory minimums imposed under § 924 (c).»